On knowing greatness, and yet standing opposed to it ||Acharya Prashant, on 'The Fountainhead'(2019)
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Video Information:
Month Of Awakening
26th September, 2019
Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida
Context:
“When reviewing books, he leaned toward novels about the soil rather than the city, about the average rather than the gifted, about the sick rather than the healthy; there was a special glow in his writing when he referred to stories about “little people”; “human” was his favorite adjective.”
“Service is the only badge of nobility. I see nothing offensive in the conception of fertilizer as the highest symbol of man’s destiny: it is fertilizer that produces wheat and roses.” “The worst folk song is superior to the best symphony.”
“A man braver than his brothers insults them by implication. Let us aspire to no virtue which cannot be shared.”
“I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.”
“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.”
“We are all brothers under the skin—and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
(Excerpts from 'The Fountainhead', by Ayn Rand)
Why does man suffer?
How to understand Toohey?
Why do we choose the easy path?
Music Credits: Milind Date
Month Of Awakening
26th September, 2019
Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida
Context:
“When reviewing books, he leaned toward novels about the soil rather than the city, about the average rather than the gifted, about the sick rather than the healthy; there was a special glow in his writing when he referred to stories about “little people”; “human” was his favorite adjective.”
“Service is the only badge of nobility. I see nothing offensive in the conception of fertilizer as the highest symbol of man’s destiny: it is fertilizer that produces wheat and roses.” “The worst folk song is superior to the best symphony.”
“A man braver than his brothers insults them by implication. Let us aspire to no virtue which cannot be shared.”
“I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.”
“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.”
“We are all brothers under the skin—and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
(Excerpts from 'The Fountainhead', by Ayn Rand)
Why does man suffer?
How to understand Toohey?
Why do we choose the easy path?
Music Credits: Milind Date